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  • The Jewish holidays. Traditions Songs and Recipes from all over the World

    by Nello Pavoncello Giacomo Saban, Giacomo Saban, Nello Pavoncello, Claudia Ottolenghi, Miriam Piperno, Yvette Saban, Lalla Blum ...
    The Jewish rites, traditions, songs and recipes from all over the world, together with the relative different menus for all the holidays are here clearly described.As a result of more than twenty centuries of migration of the Jewish People scattered around the world, their traditions, ceremonial procedures and customs vary depending on whether the Jewish communities come from the Mediterranean ... Read more

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  • Persecution

    The Friendly Fire of Memories

    by Alessandro Piperno ...
    Translated by Ann Goldstein ...
    A successful Italian doctor's idyllic life is shattered by shameful accusations in a novel by the Campiello Prize–winning author of The Worst Intentions.In a sprawling villa on the outskirts of Rome, the internationally revered pediatric oncologist Leo Pontecorvo and his family have gathered for dinner. For these exemplary members of Italy's upper middle-class, the scene is perfect in every way ... Read more

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  • Phytoliths

    A Comprehensive Guide for Archaeologists and Paleoecologists

    by Dolores R. Piperno ...
    The study of phytoliths-inorganic silica remnants plants leave behind when they die and decay-has developed dramatically over the last twenty years. New publications have documented a diverse array of phytoliths from many regions around the globe, while new understandings have emerged as to how and why plants produce phytoliths. Together, these developments make phytoliths a powerful tool in ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • The Formation of a National Audience in Italy, 1750–1890

    Readers and Spectators of Italian Culture

    by Roberto Risso, Cristina Gragnani, Katharine Mitchell, Fabio Camilletti, Adriana Chemello, Maria Grazia Lolla, Federico Casari, Martina Piperno, Giacomo Mannironi, Fabio Finotti, Giulia Brian, Ombretta Frau, Paola Giuli, Olivia Santovetti ...
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    The late eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries witness significant advancement in the production and, crucially, the consumption of culture in Italy. During the long process towards and beyond Italy becoming a nation-state in 1861, new modes of writing and performing – the novel, the self-help manual, theatrical improvisation – develop in response to new practices and technologies of production ... Read more

    $121.49 USD

  • Music, Place, and Identity in Italian Urban Soundscapes circa 1550-1860

    Edited by Franco Piperno, Simone Caputo, Emanuele Senici ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Music
    Music, Place, and Identity in Italian Urban Soundscapes circa 1550-1860 presents new perspectives on the role music played in the physical, cultural, and civic spaces of Italian cities from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. Across thirteen chapters, contributors explore the complex connections between sound and space within these urban contexts, demonstrating how music and sound were ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

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  • The Italian Renaissance

    Culture and Society in Italy

    by Peter Burke ...
    In this brilliant and widely acclaimed work, Peter Burke presents a social and cultural history of the Italian Renaissance. He discusses the social and political institutions which existed in Italy during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and analyses the ways of thinking and seeing which characterized this period of extraordinary artistic creativity. Developing a distinctive sociological ... Read more

    $29.95 USD

  • Darkness Visible

    A Memoir of Madness

    by William Styron ...
    The New York Times– bestselling memoir of crippling depression and the struggle for recovery by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Sophie's Choice .In the summer of 1985, William Styron became numbed by disaffection, apathy, and despair, unable to speak or walk while caught in the grip of advanced depression. His struggle with the disease culminated in a wave of obsession that... ... Read more

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  • Festival Architecture

    by Sarah Bonnemaison, Christine Macy ...
    Series series The Classical Tradition in Architecture
    With contributions from provocative art and architectural historians, this book is a unique exposition of the temporary architecture erected for festivals and the role it has played in developing Western architectural and urban theory.Festival Architecture is arranged in historical periods – from Antiquity to the modern era – and divided between analyses of specific festivals, set in relation to ... Read more

    $104.99 USD

  • Getting Lost

    by Annie Ernaux ...
    Translated by Alison L. Strayer ...
    WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREThe diary of one of France’s most important, award-winning writers during the year she had a passionate and secret love affair with a Russian diplomatGetting Lost is the diary Annie Ernaux kept during the year and a half she had a secret love affair with a younger, married man, a Russian diplomat. Her novel, Simple Passion, was based on this affair, but ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Monteverdi

    Edited by John Whenham, Richard Wistreich ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Music
    Claudio Monteverdi is one of the most important figures of 'early' music, a composer whose music speaks powerfully and directly to modern audiences. This book, first published in 2007, provides an authoritative treatment of Monteverdi and his music, complementing Paolo Fabbri's standard biography of the composer. Written by leading specialists in the field, it is aimed at students, performers and ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Consent

    A Memoir

    by Vanessa Springora ...
    Translated by Natasha Lehrer ...
    “Consent” is a Molotov cocktail, flung at the face of the French establishment, a work of dazzling, highly controlled fury...By every conceivable metric, her book is a triumph.” -- The New York TimesAlready an international literary sensation, an intimate and powerful memoir of a young French teenage girl’s relationship with a famous, much older male writer—a universal #MeToo story of power, ... Read more

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  • Armour and Masculinity in the Italian Renaissance

    by Carolyn Springer ...
    During the Italian Wars of 1494 to 1559, with innovations in military technology and tactics, armour began to disappear from the battlefield. Yet as field armour was retired, parade and ceremonial armour grew increasingly flamboyant. Displaced from its utilitarian function of defense but retained for symbolic uses, armour evolved in a new direction as a medium of artistic expression.Luxury armour ... Read more

    $31.69 USD